Celebrating 20 Years of Scenes from a Memory Dream Theater SEC Armadillo, Glasgow Sunday 23 February 2020 A stunning stage show with virtuosic guitar playing **** The Armadillo in Glasgow somehow seemed appropriate for a stage set that began with futuristic images of robots on the big screen, revealing some of their innards just as …
Thrak (1995) by King Crimson – Album Review
Part II of How I learned to listen to King Crimson My own response to King Crimson is one of quiet terror Robert Fripp, Die Zeit, May 1995 In King Crimson...there was always a call for a sense of a threat of impending doom. Bill Bruford, Auditory Illusions, BBC Radio 4 2019 In 2019, I heard that King Crimson …
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How I learned to listen to King Crimson
A huge compression of grinding guitar riffs and stupefying bass, only upstaged on occasion by drumming that reminds me of the time my pet frog was squashed by seven falling refrigerators. Paul Ferguson, Amazon Review of Thrak by King Crimson, February 2003 I hope Paul’s frog survived. In case you are wondering whether Paul liked the album, …